U.S. SENIOR WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

August 24, 2025

Suzy Green-Roebuck

San Diego Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Great job this week; can you walk me through the week? What stood out to you?

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: Well, the course is beautiful. The vistas are wide open, so you get this feeling of it's a wide-open space, but the fairways are actually very narrow and you lose a lot of distance if you don't hit the fairways. The rough is very penal, and you've got to keep it in the fairway off the tee, and I thought they just -- it looked very benign sometimes from the fairway, but they could tuck the pins into spots that you couldn't really go at, at least where I was most of the week.

It was very gettable if you were in the right spots.

Q. What do you think was the most challenging part? Was it the hole locations, the greens?

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: The greens are tough if you're not on the right side of the pin. You've got to kind of map your way around there. They have a ton of break, and then all of a sudden they'll be where it'll look like it should go a ton and then it'll be very straight.

You just have to kind of stalk the greens constantly and be aware and not read too much break into it. But they did a fabulous job on pin placements and challenging us.

Q. What are you most proud of this week?

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: I think I'm most proud of just trying to stay in the moment. My club is hosting next year. Top 20 is where I needed to be. I didn't get there, I don't think.

That was tough because from day one I was thinking about it, don't think about it, try to stay in the moment. That's what I was most proud of.

It's just a tough game when you don't play all the time in that much competition, which this field a lot of us don't play as much as we used to or have taken some time off and come back to it. It's an interesting dynamic with people who are not playing professional golf for a living anymore. They have other professions and doing other things and come back and try to grind it out on a U.S. Open setup.

It's a great dynamic. It's a lot of fun and wonderful to see everybody.

Most proud of just being a part of it all, too.

Q. You mentioned your club is hosting, Barton Hills Country Club. What kind of challenge do you think that'll bring for the players?

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: It's a beautiful Donald Ross course. Really a great layout. The party kind of starts from about 140 in, and the greens are very tricky. They can get them pretty fast.

But Donald Ross, he usually gives you a bail-out, so there are some spots where you just kind of have to map it out as well.

Q. What do you think will be the key to being successful on this course?

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: On this course?

Q. Well --

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: At Barton Hills?

Q. Yeah.

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: I think always lag putting in any major, any U.S. Open, lag putting, four to six-footers, and a premium on driving. I think you can hit a lot of greens at Barton, you just might not be in the spot you want to be. So lag putting and four and six-footers because the USGA likes to get that roll-out where it looks like the ball is going in and then all of a sudden you have a six-footer coming back.

Typical U.S. Open setup. I think Donald Ross sets up great -- his courses set up great for that.

Q. How would you describe the Barton Hills course for someone who's never been?

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: It's one of the best routing, walking golf courses, and you know what you have to do off the tee. I like that. But you have to think a little bit too. It's right in front of you. There's no real surprises.

Our membership is incredible, and I really hope that they're going to get behind it the way that I think they are. That area loves golf. We have a lot of great players at our club. I think everybody will be really excited about the event.

Q. Obviously it's your home course. You've played it quite a bit. Have you figured out your own strategy and how to be successful?

SUZY GREEN-ROEBUCK: Yeah, I play from a lot of different tee boxes there, so it'll be interesting to see where they -- I love that about our course too. You can really get a lot of different clubs in your hand from several different tee boxes. So I mix it up a little bit.

It'll be interesting to see where the USGA sets it up and how I can play to my strengths from there, which is generally driving accuracy, and I like my fairway woods. So if they have some long holes, I do pretty well there, and good short game.

I think it'll be fun to see from where I'm guessing they're going to play it to where they're going to play it.